Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-09
a PROBLEM SOLVED.
How brakeman Made Two TRIMS Pass
Zach Other on the Same Track.
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lChicago Herald Train Talk
"T0lltin' bout peculiar railway acct
dents, said gA oil brakeman with two
meshaI, crooked hands and a weather.
beaten face; "thll1n' bout peculiar rail.
way sma3h-ups, let me tell YOU bout enc
soon whom youngstcr. il was boat
twouty years ago, an created caps Of OK
citcment az the time, though ; pose most
folks has forgotten it by this time. But /
haiu't Mighty good reason why
shouldn't forgit i'll was there, w.s, cl'
pretty nigh got done Up
IL was down on the old Eiic road. in
York State. was q tracl, walker. an one
dark night was out Oh nv section q IVA
near LOrnclisvillc. l had inst reached a
straight, level place tween two curves an
cuia when looked up an saw the head.
light OK train comm toward NC. That
was all right, cause that train ,v.s ex.
pcctod. IL was the pay car. runnia' ba X
10 New York, and ! could see that sho was
a'comin' Ike Lightning. just then turned
en- looked in tothcr direction, an by the
great horn spoon, there was another head.
Light, just comm round onto the straight
a wild ingine runuin' back To Hornells-
vile, an maxim sixty miles an hour, if sic
was mOvin' at all
Nv hat did dol I'm a-comi,,' 10 thai.
away'g possible whom they struck each
other. But hain't no coward. I've alma
been noted fer my bravery and veracitv,
and It's the truth I'm teliin' yc when saw
mat made UP ray mind TO pTcvent that
wreck II could do II by risilin' nv own
ne " eli, sir, had no sooner thought of
" Than began to act. | seized sleeper
that was lynn long side the track thee
an placed 1t right across the rails. White
/ was dom this-an' | did it 0uiclxer'n
KIN toll you about tit seemed that both
lnEines was on TO me- an them a-scrcamin'
hEe mad. had just barely got the sleeper
iaid when the wild engine rushed up an
hit Ice as | drew back. Then shut my
eyes an. dropped into the ditch.
'Gucss | must o. lain there ten minutes
or such a matter. when one O the railroad
men came and tugced at me an told nc TO
Eit up-overy thing was all right an no.
body hurt.
"'N Ou sarcd Us from on awful wreclx.'
hero.
:. S-savod You FROM wreck gasped;
'h-Eow did Il happeAw
why that tic you put on the track yycs
Just tho stuf, old f1llcr, just the stun.
Our wild engine got 90 il just before the
pay-oar did, and when We struck IL we
49,. - e" i"'S 1ic alr- ctSid over the TOP
o the pay-cGr aud her ingiua. E-cr,
wheel took the rails on t'o;her side. am
we run half mile fore we could sto,
/ hcr'
Il rubbed my eyes and stared NJ him.
'Oh, you don't believe me- he sav,.
nut loo't-thcre stand the ing!aes and Won
KIN sec Tor yourself. The wild ingipo 4,
between Horneil5ville IN the pay-ca-.i
Il looked an saw thas IL was true In
| Placing that tie on the track I had done
better than had any idea on. MY in'on-
ton was 10 throw one O. tn. ingncs from
the track, 80 that only one Of ZEN would be
wrecked, but hope never 10 see a railroad
/ ag'n in my lie IL that wild ingine didn't
/ Jump over tother one an light on her feet
/ like a cat. had solved the probloia of
how to make two trains pass each other
on the same trCck"